Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — Put Bones Under Ground. [ARTICLE]

Put Bones Under Ground.

Most people do not suspect the great fertilizing value there is in bones. To the ordinary amateur gardener is a wide difference between the bone he holds in his hand and the soluble plant food so necessary to plant development. But the fertilizer companies know that bones are the highestclass fertilizers (not counting war prices of potash) except dried blood. Ground bones sell at over S3O a ton wholesale, when other fertilizers sell around S2O to $25 a ton. The scientific farmers use large quantities of ground bone, even in the growing of such c ops as wheat, corn and oats. Remember this next spring.